Whatever the source happens to be, the images are very interesting. They show a stubby card with a huge cooling fan smack in the middle, as well as one of Nvidia's trademark black shroud designs. At the back, a set of 12 solder points betrays the presence of two six-pin PCI Express power connectors.

Just for fun, I took the top-down shot and pasted it over a similar PR image of AMD's Radeon HD 5770 (the one with the Batman-style cooler), aligning the PCI Express x16 connectors as well as I could. The result? Assuming Expreview's shots show the real McCoy, the GTX 460 is actually a tad shorter than AMD's $160 mid-range card. Last we heard, the upcoming Nvidia card was going to have a decent bit more horsepower and a $230 price tag.

Outlines of the rumored GTX 460 in green and the Radeon HD 5770 in red.

I can't say I disapprove of the large fan, either. Those tiny hamster wheel designs you see everywhere might do a decent enough job, but I've yet to encounter one that isn't unnecessarily loud. Provided there's enough room, a big, conventional fan sitting atop an equally meaty hunk of metal seems like the way to go.